SKELTON - IN - CLEVELAND
IN HISTORY
"WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

Private ALBERT TATE.

22/1035 22nd Bn, Durham Light Infantry.

who died, aged 29, on the 30th July 1916.

Son of Margaret and the late Alonzo Tate, of 1 Green Rd, Skelton-in-Cleveland, N Yorks.


Cambrin Churchyard Extension.
24 kms North of Arras.

At the census of 1901, Albert, aged 13, was living at 139 High St and had been born in Skelton.
His father, who worked as a Horseman on Home Farm, came from Skelton and his mother from Boosbeck N Yorks.
He had two older brothers - Henry 26, who was a Wagon Wayman in the Ironstone mine and Robert 22, a grocer's assistant - and a sister Jane, age 15.
Obviously by the time of Albert's death, his father had died and the family moved to 1 Green Rd, Skelton.

The 22nd (Service) Battalion (3rd County Pioneers) of the Durham Light Infantry were formed in Durham on the 1st of October 1915.
On the 17 June 1916 they moved to France, and were attached to 19th Division.
On the 2nd July 1916, they were transferred to the 8th Division.
The Battle of the Somme began at the end of June 1916 and lasted into the winter.
Virtually all the British Divisions took some part.
Over 400,000 British lives were lost and Albert Tate died in some unknown action around Cambrin.
At one time, the village of Cambrin housed brigade headquarters, but until the end of the First World War, it was only about 800 metres from the front line trenches.
The churchyard extension was used for front line burials until February 1917 when it was closed.
Cambrin Churchyard Extension contains 1,211 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.